spicules. Spicula lineari-laneenlate. acute at the apex, straight. smVompla- 

 nate, purpurescent, 2- nearly 4 cm. long, 4J-7mm. broad in flower, closely 

 imbricated with 5-10 flowers so that the rachilla invisible superficially; rachilla 

 pubescent, flexuous, the internode about '.)-?> \ mm. long, compressed. Flow- 

 glumes 2, membranaceous, approximate, closely pi teed to the flowers ; I ol> 

 long-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2-7 mm. long, sharply pointed, ciliate. 

 3-5-nerved ; II ovate or oblong-ovale, mucb 1 i than tl I ciliated, mucro- 

 nato-acute at the apex, many-nerved, with loose and transverse venules, 

 7-8 mm. long, about 5 mm. broad. Flowering glume ovate, mucronate at 

 the apex, rounded on the back, cbartaceous, puberulent externally, densely 

 ciliated on the margin, many-nerved. Palea equal to or slightly shorter 



Lodiculfe 3, minute, ovate-elliptical, often more or less oblique, thin, very 

 slightly ciliated towards the obtuse apex, nervate below. Stamens 6, exsert- 

 ed; filament filiform; anther linear, bifid at both ends, yellow, about 5-6 mm. 



